MALTA
Malta Today
Miriam Dalli 9 February 2015
Three months down the line following the resignation of Paul Cremona as Archbishop of Malta, a new successor to lead the Maltese Church has not yet been named.
But informed sources close to the Vatican told MaltaToday that Archbishop Joseph Spiteri’s name has become the “most touted name inside Vatican corridors” since last month.
Spiteri, appointed Titular Archbishop of Serta in 2009, is 55 – just five days younger than Apostolic Administrator Charles Scicluna, and is currently serving in a Holy See diplomatic mission in Ivory Coast.
Apostolic Nuncio Aldo Cavalli, the Holy See’s envoy in Malta, has finalised a three-month process during which he met Maltese bishops, diocesan priests, religious people and laymen to discuss the role of the archbishop. The Apostolic Nuncio left Malta with the ‘terna’ of names who could be Malta’s next archbishop.
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